TPOW Weekly — Showing Up, Taking the $4K, and Building Things That Feel Alive

dustin74479
21 hours ago
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This week didn’t feel like a strategy session.

It felt like living.

Not the big, cinematic kind. The small, honest kind. The kind where you just keep showing up and stacking days.

Karting. Trading. Conversations. New people. Old instincts. Nothing flashy. But everything felt… real.

And that’s usually when I know I’m on the right path.

Karting: Back to Being a Kid Again

Karting has quietly become one of the best parts of my week.

Not because of competition. Not because of status. Because it’s simple.

Show up. Tune the kart. Talk to the other dads. Help each other. Try to get a little better.

That’s it.

No posturing. No titles. No LinkedIn bios.

Just learning the ropes together.

There’s something grounding about being new at something again. About asking dumb questions. About not pretending you know.

I’ve met some incredible people lately — engineers, builders, mechanics, parents who just love the sport. The conversations are real. No one’s selling anything. Everyone’s just trying to make their machine faster and their kid smile bigger.

It feels like childhood… but with tools and money.

And I didn’t realize how much I missed that.

Trading Experiment: The Quiet Discipline Game

On the market side, things have been good.

Tech has been ripping since those November / December-ish buys. The stuff that felt uncomfortable to hold is suddenly green and moving. The “boring” steady names have cooled off and reset, which is fine — they’re doing what they do.

But the interesting tension isn’t performance.

It’s psychology.

There’s always that voice saying:“Let it ride. Triple it. Swing bigger.”

And then there’s the other voice saying: “You just pulled $4,000 this week. In cash. Real money. Banked.”

I’ve started noticing how satisfying that second voice is.

Four grand a week, harvested cleanly, pays for a life most people would dream about. No heroics required. No chest-pounding.

Just consistency.

And when some of these smaller trades are kicking out 20%+ in under a month… that’s not theory. That’s math.

It’s tempting to swing for the fences. But there’s something deeply calming about taking the base hit and walking back to the dugout.

I don’t need to win the game in one trade.

I just need to keep showing up tomorrow.

That mindset feels mature. Less ego. More craft.

Okanagan Motorsport: Energy You Can Feel

Then this week I met the Okanagan Motorsport team at UBCO.

About 100 students. All engineers. All building a race car from scratch.

Designing. Testing. Fabricating. Solving problems most adults would avoid.

They’re prepping for a June competition in the U.S.

And when they talked about the project, you could feel it — that raw, contagious energy that only shows up when people are building something hard together.

It reminded me of early days. Of labs. Of garages. Of late nights figuring things out.

They weren’t asking for hype. They were asking for help.

Real help.

Experience. Connections. Guidance.

I walked away thinking: This is where I want to spend time. Not because it’s strategic. Because it feels alive.

If there’s a place I can contribute, I’m in.

No spreadsheet needed.